security flaw in udev

[Benny Amorsen]

Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com> writes:

> Uhh, actually I find virtualization makes rebooting the host easier. My
> server is running CentOS 5 with its previous Debian install running in a
> Xen VM, that still handles most of the services. Apparently when the
> host reboots, the VM is automatically hibernated, and restored on the
> next boot. The VM hardly notices anything happened at all, just a
> temporary lack of network connection and CPU time... :)

The people trying to use the VM in the meantime aren't very happy, and
reboots take approximately forever if you have a decent amount of
guests.

That said, I don't let untrusted users into the host.


/Benny